Published:PravdaNo. 49, May 18 (5), 1917.

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The“conciliation” machine is working at full speed. The Narodniks
      and Mensheviks are toiling in the sweat of their brow, making up
      a new list of ministers. We are on the eve of a “new”
      cabinet....

Alas!It will not be very new. The government of the capitalists
      will have a few petty-bourgeois ministers tacked on to it in the
      shape of Narodniks and Mensheviks who have allowed themselves to
      be lured to the support of the imperialist war.

Weshall have more phrase-mongering, more fireworks, more lavish
      promises and bombast about “peace without annexations”—but
      no desire whatever to even enumerate frankly, precisely and
      truthfully theactualannexations effected, say, by
      three countries: Germany, Russia, and Britain.

Howlong, gentlemen of the old and the new cabinets, can one
      deceive oneself with the utopia that the peasants will support
      the capitalists (the well-to-do peasants are not the whole of
      the peasantry), with the utopia of an “offensive” at the front
      (in the name of “peace without annexations”)?